The Freedom for Ocalan Campaign have sent birthday greetings to Abdullah Ocalan on the occasion of his sixty-ninth birthday. This elderly Kurdish gentleman is unlikely to receive many birthday cards and presents in his prison cell in solitary confinement on the island of Imrali as the Turkish authorities refuse him access to family, lawyers and medical advice.

However we have sent a birthday card via Sir Dominick Chilcott KCMG, the UK ambassador to Turkey, and asked him to ensure that the card from British trade unionists is delivered to him.